Text Chapter 205 Glorious Society
Italians, it's a country that's hard to describe. Take the period of World War II as an example, in the eyes of many people, Italy, which was the same Axis power as Germany and Japan, was mainly responsible for selling cuteness? Even the German mustache himself said: "I can conquer Italy with five divisions." β
The performance of the Italians in the war really did not conform to the image of a big country: in World War I, the army was defeated on the Po River, almost let Austria-Hungary fall to the ground, defeated the backward Ethiopia, and paid more than 100,000 casualties; in World War II, the French army that had been defeated by the mustache was defeated; the superior navy avoided the Mediterranean Sea and was annihilated at Toranta; the 100,000-strong army in East Africa was completely annihilated by more than 10,000 British; North Africa was completely collapsed with five enemies and one enemy; and the expedition to the weak Greece was humiliated by the loss of the army and the humiliation of the country.
Of course, in fact, this is related to Italy's weak national strength at that time, just a simple set of data can explain the problem: during World War II, the output of Italian coal mines was 1/6 of Germany's output, 1/7 of oil, 1/10 of steel, and 1/4 of Germany's military vehicles. What can such a national power do in a war?
To this day, all kinds of cute jokes sold in Italy during World War II on the Internet, of course, are all adapted by jokers, for example, when other countries were busy developing new weapons, the Italians invented the freeze-dried food preservation method, which shocked the United Nations. Come on, the United Nations was only established in 1945! During World War II, the food of the Italian army was very poor, and the Germans called the canned luncheon meat eaten in Italy 'Mussolini's butt', which means too unpalatable! They called their compressed biscuits 'cement blocks', because they were too dry and hard to bite into.
Most of the rest of the jokes are also made up blindly or modified according to historical truth, of course, there are also true, Italy fought really scumbag during World War II. From the few words in Rommel's letter to his wife, we can see what the situation of the Italians was like during World War II:
"The Italians were completely unreliable, they were particularly sensitive to enemy tanks------ as in 1917------ they automatically threw in the towel when they saw them. β
"The Germans were so few and the Italians were so useless that they either refused to advance at all or ran away at the sound of gunfire. If an Englishman came up to them, they immediately raised their hands in the air. β
"Your husband already has an Italian station wagon, which is at least a comfortable and quiet place to live, and can be a little bit of a cold at night, and the Italians are quite adept at making such things. β
"In our experience, the Italians did a rather poor job of secrecy, and any radio sent to Rome, it didn't take long for the British to know its contents. β
But the Italians, who are not good at this scum, also had extremely mastery times in World War II, like the Italian 185th Lightning Paratrooper Division, desperately blocking the British army after the Battle of El Alamein, and after running out of ammunition and food, the division commander led the last 300 people to destroy weapons and surrender.
In the 1941 Soviet Winter Offensive, the Soviet Union launched an offensive against the Italian army, codenamed 'Christmas Night', and the Italian 81st Infantry Regiment successfully held the defensive line, and the following year it inflicted heavy losses on the Soviet tank units on the Don River line on the Stalingrad flank, capturing more than 1,700 people.
There is also the famous 'Savoy' cavalry regiment, 600 cavalry carrying sabers to charge the Soviet army, crushed two battalions, completely annihilated one battalion, captured more than 500 people, captured four howitzers, ten mortars, and 50 machine guns.
All in all, the Italians are such a contradictory country that you can't tell whether he is a melon or a warrior. Of course, their scumbag is also related to Mussolini's attitude, he did not want to go to war in the first place, and was forced to γγγγγ by a mustache
Such a nation, as a defeated country after World War II, created another miracle: the most famous Italian mafia in the worldγγγγγγ
The Italian mafia was born in Sicily, southern Italy, so to speak, and southern Italy has always been a place of disappearance for modern Italy.
The Italian mafia was born in the eighteenth century when it was notified by Austria, and the first members of the mafia were Italians, Greeks and Arabs living in Sicily, and their initial purpose was self-government. The decree from the Austrian ruler was obviously unsuitable in Sicily, and the mafia formulated its own laws and its own administrative power, and the original intention of the mafia at that time was really for the people of Sicily, flaunting itself to protect the common people, and the officials dared to be corrupt? I dare to kill you!
But when the mafia arrived in the United States, it became purely synonymous with crime. Three characteristics ran through their lives: "collectivism, machismo, and xenophobia." "They pursue a small number of traditional eliteism, the big family has one or two hundred people, and the average family has fifty or sixty people, but almost all of them have several times more 'partners', and now there are dozens of such 'families' in the United States alone. There are hundreds of 'families' around the world, including more than 40 large families. Some families will choose to band together to form large mafia gangs.
This 'Glorious Society' is one of them, which originated in Calabria in southern Italy in the sixties of the twentieth century, and was first started by kidnapping like other families, and now has more than 160 branches and more than 6,000 members worldwide. Engaged in kidnapping, drug trafficking and other activities, but also investing in construction projects, etc., because this "glorious society" is mainly based on the family unit, relying on blood relations and marriage to develop and grow, basically the son inherits his father's business, has received strict gangster training since childhood, and has been promoted step by step from a "glorious boy" to a "glorious backbone".
And because they are all related by blood, there are few traitors and whistleblowers.
The 'Glorious Society' is very capable in Australia, and they will control many legal companies in Australia through violence and intimidation, and they are also engaged in illegal transactions such as drugs. Moreover, the members of this 'Glorious Society' also have dealings with senior Australian officials.
In 2000, then-Australian Prime Minister John Howard met at a fundraiser with a person with a strong connection to the Glorious Society, who was also involved in meeting with other Liberal Party executives. However, there is no evidence that Howard knew at the time that this person was closely related to the Glorious Society.
Another example is the Australian ambassador to Italy, Vanstone, who directly hired the son of a gang boss in the name of the embassy. When a gang boss who committed crimes in Italy was facing a repatriation crisis, it was also this Windstone who directly renewed his visa and let him stay in Australia to avoid Italian law.
All in all, the 'Glorious Society' is in Australia, and that's very capable.
Now it's good, it looks like the 'Glorious Society' has found trouble with Guy's friends.
Xiao Peng was still a little hesitant, for the sake of someone he had just met to offend the Australian gangsters? Not to mention Yang Meng, he made Guy nauseous enough just now, and he didn't want to help, but fortunately, Guy didn't call the two of them, and trotted all the way over.
"Hey, this sissy is quite bold. Watching Guy run by himself, Yang Mengle said. "Aren't all the Italian mafias all suits and leather shoes? Why are they all black T-shirts here?"
Xiao Peng shrugged: "Follow the locals, this is Australia, you are wearing a black suit here? They're not going to be tough with Guy, are they?"
Yang Meng picked up the binoculars and looked at it, looking at Xiao Peng with a strange expression: "Are you sure?"
"What do you mean?" Xiao Peng looked at Yang Meng with a puzzled expression.
Yang Meng said: "That guy made people beat him and threw it into the sea." β
"Ugh. It's lawless. Xiao Peng sighed, and stood up after speaking: "Forget it, let's drink, go and help." Xiao Peng didn't go to help because he thought that Guy was a well-known designer and should be able to handle this matter, but he didn't think that these people didn't like him at all, and threw him into the sea.
Yang Meng stretched: "I really don't want to help this birdman." He said so, but still walked behind Yang Meng.
When the two of them walked over, Guy was pitifully being pressed into the sea by a few men to fill the water.
"Do you dare to meddle in your business?"
"Kill you or not?"
"It's a good thing that even dead glass dares to disturb us?"
"What a hard mouth, dare to stare at me like this? Believe it or not, I'll pull your eyes out!"
Guy's performance impressed Xiao Peng, who was made like this, but he still didn't give in. This GAY has more backbone than many gentlemen. I saw that he was still there gritting his teeth, glaring at a few people with hatred. If you think about it, you can understand that the designers of top fashion brands know all 'upper-class people'?
"Why are you glaring at me?" a blond young man in a shirt commanded his subordinates, and tilted his head to change his smiling expression after speaking: "Miss Gima Ward, I have invited you to be a guest very sincerely, can you bear to let your friend suffer such torture?"
Guy shouted, "Don't listen to him, I'm not going to finish this with them!"
When the blonde boy heard this, he snorted coldly, "What did I just say, keep pouring!" His subordinates quickly pressed Guy's head back into the water when they heard it.
As soon as Guy was pressed into the water, he felt that something was wrong. When they poured him just now, they were afraid that he would hold his breath, and they would always punch and kick him at the same time, why didn't anyone beat him this time?
Before he could figure it out, one hand lifted him out of the water with his collar: "Dude, no one pressed you, what are you still doing in the water?"
Guy was lifted up from the water, opened his eyes, and saw Xiao Peng looking at him with a smile, and then looked at it, the arrogant blonde young man standing on the beach just now was being pinched by Yang Meng's neck, his little face was red, and the crowd next to him was looking at Yang Meng with fierce eyes.
Xiao Peng patted Guy: "Remember in the future, don't do porcelain work without that diamond diamond, don't take care of the porcelain work, do you know that heroes don't eat the losses in front of them? You won't use your brains? How arrogant are these people? Such a public place dares to make trouble like this, and the background can be simple? You argue with them? Isn't that looking for trouble?"
Guy was stunned: "Then why didn't you remind me just now?"
Xiao Peng scratched his head: "I didn't think of this question just now. β
Guy was speechless: "Thatγγγγγγ You told me that heroes don't suffer immediate losses, so why are you here?"
Xiao Peng's face was righteous and Ling Ran: "We are not afraid of danger and fight against evil forces." Mengzi, let go, if you do this again, you will really strangle to death. β